Physical controls and predictability of stream hyporheic flow evaluated with a multiscale model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Stonedahl, Susa H ^a,b   Harvey, Judson W ^c   Detty, Joel ^c,d   Aubeneau, Antoine ^a   Packman, Aaron I ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Normandeau Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS-TIME RANDOM WALK MODELS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; HYDROLOGIC INTERACTIONS; HYPORHEIC; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; INDIANA; MULTISCALE MODELS; PARAMETERIZED; PHYSICAL CONTROL; PHYSICAL VARIABLES; PHYSICALLY BASED; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; PLANFORM; REACTION PROCESS; RESIDENCE TIME; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAM TRACERS; STREAM VELOCITY; STREAMBEDS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TRACER MEASUREMENT; TRANSIENT STORAGE MODEL;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STREAM FLOW;

DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPORHEIC ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; PREDICTION; RESIDENCE TIME; RIPPLE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867563835     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011582     Document Type: Article

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